Job Vacancy For Private Sector Investment Team Lead
- Accra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead efforts to mobilize private sector investments across the agriculture, trade, apparel, climate finance for adaptation/mobilization, WASH, and other high-impact sectors
- Manage investor relations. Build and maintain strong partnerships with the private sector
- Oversee activities to support financial institutions in increasing the availability of custom products in order to address financing needs of SMEs and rural farming communities
- Recommend technical assistance for capital-seeking businesses and link with services providers that can strengthen the company's management and operational activities to facilitate growth and investment
- Provide advisory support to businesses
- Work with the COP and Regulatory and Policy Team Lead to identify trends in regulatory constraints in the transaction cycle, as well as lessons learned to improve policy reform
- Seek out and actively engage local firms dedicated to inclusivity and innovation, deliberately ensuring interventions benefit underrepresented groups and apply a gender equity and social inclusion lens to investments
- Other duties as assigned
- Bachelor's degree in economics, finance, business administration, or a related field required
- Minimum 7 years of experience identifying and mobilizing private sector investments
- Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain professional relationships with a wide network of partners and stakeholders, including investors, financiers, and the private sector
- Experience designing investment promotion campaigns, conducting outreach programs, and engaging in investment forums in key sectors
- Proven ability to collaborate with government officials, international donors, and other?local partners. Experience with multi-sectoral programs that address agriculture, climate mitigation and adaptation, trade, apparel, WASH, renewable energy, or a combination of the above
- Experience working in West Africa, preferably in Ghana
- Experience with USAID programming highly preferred
- Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
- Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
- Fluency in English required. Proficiency in at Twi or another local language highly desired
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